by Peter Galli on April 22, 2009 01:37pm Microsoft is sponsoring research at the University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI) to develop an open source Network File System client for Windows. This will enable Windows to...

by hjanssen on March 04, 2008 10:50am I have this really odd feeling of Dejavu. The last blog I wrote ( here ), I started by saying that I have been very delinquent with writing blogs. So what do I do? I continue to be very delinquent with my blogs...

by Peter Galli on July 06, 2009 12:27pm I have some good news to announce: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise to the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs . ECMA 334 specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the...

by Sam Ramji on July 23, 2009 08:38pm Microsoft on Monday contributed the Linux Integration Component drivers to the Linux community for the reasons stated in our release . Microsoft chose the GPLv2 license for the mutual benefit of our customers, partners...

by Peter Galli on November 02, 2009 03:01pm This week the Apache Software Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary at its annual U.S. ApacheCon 2009 event in Oakland. As such, I though it would be interesting to chat with ASF President Justin Erenkrantz...

by admin on June 16, 2006 01:21pm Infrastructure Management and Strategic Design: Part 2 – Driving Network Efficiencies Every computing device in existence today lives and breathes on some sort of a Network. Doesn’t matter if your Home PC is connected...

by jcannon on August 01, 2006 02:51pm Today, the IT departments offering and managing various IT Services might find themselves in what I would call a “pressure-cooker”. They are faced with a multitude of tasks and added pressure to maintain daily operations...

by Peter Galli on July 21, 2009 06:15am Today, Microsoft announced the Live Services Plug-in for Moodle, a free download released under the General Public License v2 that integrates Microsoft's Live@edu services such as email, calendar, instant messaging...

by hjanssen on February 28, 2007 06:06pm
When I started working at Microsoft in May of 2006 I wanted to chronicle my adventures here. So my first blog was posted on June 7th 2006 Titled What is a guy like me doing in a place like this , I had every...

by Peter Galli on October 28, 2010 12:00pm The Microsoft Interoperability Technical Strategy team today used the Professional Developers Conference 2010 (PDC 10) on campus in Redmond to announce a new set of tools based on Eclipse and updated client libraries...

by Peter Galli on September 22, 2009 09:00am Today, Zend Technologies announced the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, which is a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while...

by MichaelF on February 02, 2007 06:36pm
Following up on our post yesterday here is an interview Sam did with ASP.NET Technical Evangelist: Steve Marx.
Steve discusses the three components of ASP.NET AJAX and shows us a demo of the software formerly...

We've been participating in creating a roadmap for adoption of cloud computing throughout the federal government, with the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) , an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce , and the United States first...

Great news for all Node.js developers wanting to use Windows: today we reached an important milestone - v0.6.0 – which is the first official stable build that includes Windows support.
This comes some four months after our June 23rd announcement...

Hello web and mobile developers!
As you probably noticed, jQuery Mobile version 1.0 was announced this week . We are pleased to use this exciting occasion to reinforce our commitment to supporting popular open source mobile frameworks.
Of the most...

Good news for all you Java developers out there: I am happy to share with you the availability of Windows Azure libraries for Java that provide Java-based access to the functionality exposed via the REST API in Windows Azure Service Bus .
You can download...

Today Microsoft is hosting the Learn Windows Azure broadcast event to demonstrate how easy it is for developers to get started with Windows Azure. Senior Microsoft executives like Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, Mark Russinovich and others will show how...

by Peter Galli on July 15, 2010 05:59pm
Version 1.0 of the Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF), which is licensed under the OSI-approved Microsoft Public License , has shipped.
MBF is a language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit built as an extension...

Starting today, the Metro style theme for JQuery Mobile , the popular open source mobile user interface framework, is available for download on GitHub and can be used as a NuGet package in Visual Studio .
The theme enables HTML5 pages to adapt automatically...

Here is great news for open source developers: Brian Harry announced today at the Microsoft’s ALM Summit that Git is now fully integrated into Visual Studio as well as the Team Foundation Service , Microsoft’s cloud-powered Application Lifecycle...

At the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco today, Sandy Gupta, the General Manager for Microsoft’s Open Solutions Group, along with Alan Clark, Director of New Initiatives and Emerging Standards for Open Source at SUSE, announced the...

Today Bill Laing, Corporate VP for Server and Cloud, announced a very important set of Windows Azure updates. With these new updates, Windows Azure is more than ever an open and easy platform to build and run applications in the cloud, and the place to...

I recently returned from Paris, where I attended both the annual Open Source Think Tank and Open World Forum events. It was really great getting to chat with some of the folks representing the myriad of businesses that have sprung up around Open Source...

(This blog was originally posted on our Interoperability blog )
As a proud member of the Apache Software Foundation , it’s always great to see the growth and adoption of Apache community projects. The Apache Hadoop project is a prime example...

By Gianugo Rabellino Senior Director Open Source Communities Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
As I write this, I’m exploring the public preview of VM Depot , a new service from Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. VM Depot is a community-driven...